2015/02/17 by Daphna Canetti, Julia Elad‐Strenger, Julia Elad-Strenger +5 · 140 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Compromise #Conflict resolution #Conflict resolution research #Context (archaeology) #Criminology #Ethos #Geography #Law #Political Conflict and Governance #Political economy #Political science #Political violence #Politics #Psychology #Scholarship #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Sociology #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
paper · doi:10.1177/0022002715569771
published in Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(1), 84-113 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2015/02/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Does ongoing exposure to political violence prompt subject groups to support or oppose compromise in situations of intractable conflict? If so, what is the mechanism underlying these processes? Political scholarship neither offers conclusive arguments nor sufficiently addresses individual-level forms of exposure to violence in the context of political conflict, particularly the factors mediating political outcomes. We address this by looking at the impact of exposure to political violence, psychological distress, perceived threat, and ethos of conflict on support for political compromise. A mediated model is hypothesized whereby exposure to political violence provokes support for the ethos of conflict and hinders support for compromise through perceived psychological distress and perceived national threat. We examined representative samples of two parties to the same conflict: Israelis ( N = 781) and Palestinians from Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank ( N = 1,196). The study’s main conclusion is that ethos of conflict serves as a mediating variable in the relationship between exposure to violence and attitudes toward peaceful settlement of the conflict.